유란시아 책
IV 부. 예수의 생애와 교훈
Paper 193
Final Appearances and Ascension
Final Appearances and Ascension
193:0.1 (2052.1)
THE sixteenth morontia manifestation of Jesus occurred on Friday, May 5, in the courtyard of Nicodemus, about nine o’clock at night. On this evening the Jerusalem believers had made their first attempt to get together since the resurrection. Assembled here at this time were the eleven apostles, the women’s corps and their associates, and about fifty other leading disciples of the Master, including a number of the Greeks. This company of believers had been visiting informally for more than half an hour when, suddenly, the morontia Master appeared in full view and immediately began to instruct them. Said Jesus:
“평강이 너희에게 있으라. 너희는, 내가 육신으로부터 벗어난 후로 계속 나타났던 신자들--곧 사도와 제자들, 남자와 여자들-- 중에서 가장 대표적인 집단이다. 너희 가운데 머무는 이 기간이 반드시 끝나게 되리라고 전에 말한 것과;내가 곧 아버지께로 돌아가야 함을 너희에게 알려준 것에 대해, 이제는 너희가 증인이 돼주기 바란다. 그리고 수석 제사장들과 유대인 관리들이 어떻게 나를 죽일 것인지에 대해, 또한 내가 무덤에서 살아날 것에 대해 너희에게 분명히 이야기했었다. 그런데 이 모든 일이 일어났을 때, 너희는 어찌하여 그토록 당황했느냐? 그리고 내가 셋째 날에 무덤에서 살아났을 때, 너희는 왜 그렇게 놀랐느냐? 너희는 의미를 납득하지 못하면서 내 말을 들었기 때문에, 내 말을 믿지 못했다.
193:0.2 (2052.2)
“Peace be upon you. This is the most representative group of believers—apostles and disciples, both men and women—to which I have appeared since the time of my deliverance from the flesh. I now call you to witness that I told you beforehand that my sojourn among you must come to an end; I told you that presently I must return to the Father. And then I plainly told you how the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews would deliver me up to be put to death, and that I would rise from the grave. Why, then, did you allow yourselves to become so disconcerted by all this when it came to pass? and why were you so surprised when I rose from the tomb on the third day? You failed to believe me because you heard my words without comprehending the meaning thereof.
“그러니 너희는 이제, 마음으로는 그 의미를 납득하지 못하면서 정신으로만 나의 가르침을 듣는 실수를 다시 하지 않도록, 내 말에 귀를 잘 기울여야한다. 내가 너희 가운데 한 사람으로서 머물게 된 후에, 하늘에 계신 내 아버지를 이 세상 자녀들에게 드러내는 것이, 내가 온 유일한 목적이라고 너희에게 가르쳤다. 너희가 하나님을-아는 생애를 체험하도록, 나는 하나님을-계시하는 증여의 삶을 살아왔다. 나는 하나님이 하늘에 계신 너희 아버지이심을 드러냈으며;너희는 이 세상에 있는 하나님의 아들들임을 드러냈다. 하나님께서 아들들 곧 너희를 사랑하시는 것이 사실이다. 내 말을 믿는 신앙으로, 이 사실은 너희 마음 속에서 영원하고 생생한 진리가 된다. 살아있는 신앙으로 너희가 신성하게 하나님을-의식하게 되면, 너희는 빛과 생명의 자녀로서 영으로 태어나며, 심지어 영원한 생명을 성취하여 온갖 우주로 상승하고, 낙원에서 아버지 하나님을 만나는 체험을 달성한다.
193:0.3 (2052.3)
“And now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mistake of hearing my teaching with the mind while in your hearts you fail to comprehend the meaning. From the beginning of my sojourn as one of you, I taught you that my one purpose was to reveal my Father in heaven to his children on earth. I have lived the God-revealing bestowal that you might experience the God-knowing career. I have revealed God as your Father in heaven; I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts. When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding God the Father on Paradise.
너희에게 충고하는데, 사람들 가운데서 너희가 해야 할 사명은, 천국 복음을--곧 하나님이 아버지시라는 진실과 사람이 아들신분이라는 진리를-- 선포하는 것임을 기억하라. 구원하는 복음의 일부분만이 아니라, 기쁜 소식의 전체 진리를 선포하라. 너희가 전할 메시지는, 내가 부활을 체험한 것으로 인해 변경되지 않는다. 신앙으로 하나님의 아들이 된다는 것이, 여전히 천국 복음의 구원하는 진리다. 너희는 하나님의 사랑과 사람의 봉사를 전파하면서 나아가야한다. 세상이 반드시 알아야하는 것은:사람은 하나님의 아들이며, 고상하게 하는 이 진리를 그들은 신앙을 통해서 실제로 깨달을 수 있고, 날마다 체험할 수 있다는 것이다. 나를 증여한 것이, 모든 사람으로 하여금 저희가 하나님의 자녀임을 알게 하는 데 도움이 되겠지만, 영원한 아버지의 살아있는 영 아들이라는 구원하는 진리를 몸소 신앙으로-붙잡기에 저희가 실패한다면, 그런 지식만으로는 충분하지 않다. 천국 복음은, 아버지의 사랑, 그리고 이 세상에서 그의 자녀들이 봉사하는 것과 관련된다.
193:0.4 (2052.4)
“I admonish you ever to remember that your mission among men is to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom—the reality of the fatherhood of God and the truth of the sonship of man. Proclaim the whole truth of the good news, not just a part of the saving gospel. Your message is not changed by my resurrection experience. Sonship with God, by faith, is still the saving truth of the gospel of the kingdom. You are to go forth preaching the love of God and the service of man. That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons of God, and through faith they can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth. My bestowal should help all men to know that they are the children of God, but such knowledge will not suffice if they fail personally to faith-grasp the saving truth that they are the living spirit sons of the eternal Father. The gospel of the kingdom is concerned with the love of the Father and the service of his children on earth.
“너희끼리 여기서, 내가 죽음에서 살아났다는 정보를 나누지만, 그 정보는 이상한 것이 아니다. 나는 내 생명을 버릴 권세와 그것을 다시 취할 권세를 가졌으며;아버지께서 그런 권능을 낙원 아들들에게 주신다. 내가 요셉의 새 무덤을 떠난 즉시, 한 시대의 죽은 자들이 영원한 상승에 참여했다는 것을 알았다면, 너희 마음에 더 빨리 자극받았을 것이다. 내가 너희를 사랑하고 섬김으로 하나님을 너희에게 드러냈듯이, 너희도 사랑하는 봉사를 통해서 동료들에게 하나님을 어떻게 드러내게 되는지 너희에게 보여주려고, 내가 육신 속에서 나의 생애를 살았다. 너희 자신은 물론 다른 모든 사람도 너희가 하나님의 아들임을 알 수 있도록, 내가 사람의 아들로서 너희와 함께 살았다. 그러므로, 너희는 이제 온 세상으로 가서, 온 인류에게 이 하늘 나라 복음을 전파해라. 내가 너희를 사랑한 것처럼 모든 사람을 사랑하며;내가 너희를 섬긴 것처럼 너희도 동료 필사자를 섬겨라. 너희가 거저 받았으니 거저 줘라. 내가 아버지께로 가는 동안, 그리고 내가 진리의 영을 너희에게 보낼 때까지, 여기 예루살렘에 머물기만 해라. 그가 너희를 확장된 진리로 인도할 것이고, 온 세상으로 나갈 때 내가 너희와 동행할 것이다. 나는 너희와 늘 함께 있고, 또한 내 평강을 너희에게 남겨둔다.”
193:0.5 (2053.1)
“Among yourselves, here, you share the knowledge that I have risen from the dead, but that is not strange. I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up again; the Father gives such power to his Paradise Sons. You should the rather be stirred in your hearts by the knowledge that the dead of an age entered upon the eternal ascent soon after I left Joseph’s new tomb. I lived my life in the flesh to show how you can, through loving service, become God-revealing to your fellow men even as, by loving you and serving you, I have become God-revealing to you. I have lived among you as the Son of Man that you, and all other men, might know that you are all indeed the sons of God. Therefore, go you now into all the world preaching this gospel of the kingdom of heaven to all men. Love all men as I have loved you; serve your fellow mortals as I have served you. Freely you have received, freely give. Only tarry here in Jerusalem while I go to the Father, and until I send you the Spirit of Truth. He shall lead you into the enlarged truth, and I will go with you into all the world. I am with you always, and my peace I leave with you.”
193:0.6 (2053.2)
When the Master had spoken to them, he vanished from their sight. It was near daybreak before these believers dispersed; all night they remained together, earnestly discussing the Master’s admonitions and contemplating all that had befallen them. James Zebedee and others of the apostles also told them of their experiences with the morontia Master in Galilee and recited how he had three times appeared to them.
193:1.1 (2053.3)
About four o’clock on Sabbath afternoon, May 13, the Master appeared to Nalda and about seventy-five Samaritan believers near Jacob’s well, at Sychar. The believers were in the habit of meeting at this place, near where Jesus had spoken to Nalda concerning the water of life. On this day, just as they had finished their discussions of the reported resurrection, Jesus suddenly appeared before them, saying:
“평강이 너희에게 있으라. 내가 부활이요 생명임을 너희가 알고 환호했으나, 너희가 먼저 영원한 영으로 태어나고 신앙으로 영원한 생명의 선물을 소유하지 못하면, 이것은 너희에게 아무 소용없을 것이다. 너희가 내 아버지의 신앙 아들이라면 결코 죽지 않을 것이며;소멸되지 않을 것이다. 천국 복음은 모든 사람이 하나님의 아들임을 너희에게 가르쳐준다. 그리고 하늘 아버지께서 이 세상 자녀들을 사랑하신다는 이 기쁜 소식이, 온 세상에 전해져야한다. 너희가 그리심산도 예루살렘도 아닌, 너희가 있는 곳에서, 너희 모습 그대로, 영 안에서 그리고 진리 안에서 하나님께 경배 드리는 그때가 왔다. 너희의 혼을 구원하는 것은 너희의 신앙이다. 구원은 하나님의 선물인데, 자신이 하나님의 아들임을 믿는 모든 사람에게 주신다. 그러나 속지 말라;구원은 하나님께서 거저 주시는 선물이고, 신앙으로 받아들이는 모든 사람에게 수여되지만, 육신 속에서 영 생애를 살 때, 그 열매를 맺는 체험이 뒤이어 일어난다. 하나님이 아버지시라는 교리를 받아들이는 것은, 사람들이 형제관계라는 관련된 진리도 거리낌 없이 받아들인다는 것을 내포한다. 그리고 사람이 너의 형제라면, 그는 이웃보다 더 가까우며, 아버지께서는 네 몸을 사랑하듯이 형제를 사랑하라고 요구하신다. 너의 형제가 정말로 너의 식구라면, 너는 가족으로서 애정으로 그를 사랑할 뿐만 아니라, 네 몸을 섬기듯이 그를 섬기게 될 것이다. 너희가 내 형제이므로 내 사랑과 섬김을 받은 것처럼, 너희도 그렇게 형제를 사랑하고 섬기게 될 것이다. 그러니 온 세상으로 가서, 모든 종족과 부족과 민족에게 이 기쁜 소식을 전파하라. 내 영이 너희보다 앞서 갈 것이며, 내가 항상 너희와 함께 있을 것이다.”
193:1.2 (2053.4)
“Peace be upon you. You rejoice to know that I am the resurrection and the life, but this will avail you nothing unless you are first born of the eternal spirit, thereby coming to possess, by faith, the gift of eternal life. If you are the faith sons of my Father, you shall never die; you shall not perish. The gospel of the kingdom has taught you that all men are the sons of God. And this good news concerning the love of the heavenly Father for his children on earth must be carried to all the world. The time has come when you worship God neither on Gerizim nor at Jerusalem, but where you are, as you are, in spirit and in truth. It is your faith that saves your souls. Salvation is the gift of God to all who believe they are his sons. But be not deceived; while salvation is the free gift of God and is bestowed upon all who accept it by faith, there follows the experience of bearing the fruits of this spirit life as it is lived in the flesh. The acceptance of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God implies that you also freely accept the associated truth of the brotherhood of man. And if man is your brother, he is even more than your neighbor, whom the Father requires you to love as yourself. Your brother, being of your own family, you will not only love with a family affection, but you will also serve as you would serve yourself. And you will thus love and serve your brother because you, being my brethren, have been thus loved and served by me. Go, then, into all the world telling this good news to all creatures of every race, tribe, and nation. My spirit shall go before you, and I will be with you always.”
193:1.3 (2054.1)
These Samaritans were greatly astonished at this appearance of the Master, and they hastened off to the near-by towns and villages, where they published abroad the news that they had seen Jesus, and that he had talked to them. And this was the seventeenth morontia appearance of the Master.
“평강이 너희에게 있으라. 너희는 사람의 아들이 죽음에서 살아난 것을 알게 됐다는 것을 환호해야하는데, 그로 말미암아 너희 자신과 너희의 형제들 역시 필사자의 죽음에서 생존하게 된다는 것을 너희가 알게 됐기 때문이다. 그러나 그런 생존은, 너희가 진리를-찾고 하나님을-발견하는 영의 탄생이 이미 이뤄졌는지에 달려있다. 진리에 굶주리고 의에 목마른 자--곧 하나님을 향하는 자--에게만, 생명의 빵과 물이 주어진다. 죽은 자들이 살아난다는 사실은 천국 복음이 아니다. 이 엄청난 진리와 이 우주 사실이 모두 이 복음과 관련되지만, 기쁜 소식을 믿은 결과의 일부일 뿐이며, 신앙으로 말미암아 정말로 그리고 진실로 영원한 하나님의 영속하는 아들이 된 사람들이, 그후에 갖게 되는 체험에 포함돼있을 뿐이다. 내 아버지께서는 아들신분의 이 구원을 모든 사람에게 전파하시려고 나를 이 세상에 보내셨다. 그리고 나도 아들신분의 이 구원을 전파하기 위하여 너희를 보낸다. 구원은 하나님이 거저 주시는 선물이지만, 영으로 태어난 사람은, 동료 피조물을 사랑으로 섬김으로써 영의 열매를 즉시 보여주기 시작할 것이다. 영으로 태어나고 하나님을 아는 필사자의 생활에서 맺히는 신성한 영의 열매는:사랑으로 섬김, 사심 없는 헌신, 불굴의 충성심, 진지한 공평성, 계몽된 정직성, 끊임없는 희망, 맡길만한 신용, 자비로운 보살핌, 끊임없는 선함, 용서하는 아량, 그리고 영구적 평강이다. 신자라고 고백한 자들이, 거룩한 영으로부터 나오는 이런 열매를 자신의 삶 속에서 맺지 못한다면, 저희는 죽었으며;진리의 영이 그들 속에 없으며;살아있는 포도나무에 붙어있는 쓸모없는 가지들이요, 곧 잘리게 될 것이다. 내 아버지께서는 신앙의 자녀에게 영의 열매를 많이 맺으라고 요구하신다. 따라서 너희에게 열매가 없다면, 너희의 뿌리 둘레를 파내고, 열매 맺지 못하는 가지를 잘라버리실 것이다. 너희는 하나님 나라에서 하늘을 향해 진보하면서 점점 더 많은 영의 열매를 맺어야한다. 너희는 어린아이로서 천국에 들어가게 되겠으나, 아버지께서는 너희가 은혜로 말미암아 영적으로 성숙된 온전한 크기까지 자랄 것을 요구하신다. 그리고 너희가 이 복음의 기쁜 소식을 모든 민족에게 전하면서 널리 사방으로 나아갈 때, 내가 너희보다 먼저 갈 것이며, 내 진리의 영이 너희 마음 속에 거할 것이다. 내 평강을 너희에게 준다.”
193:2.2 (2054.3)
“Peace be upon you. You rejoice to know that the Son of Man has risen from the dead because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also survive mortal death. But such survival is dependent on your having been previously born of the spirit of truth-seeking and God-finding. The bread of life and the water thereof are given only to those who hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness—for God. The fact that the dead rise is not the gospel of the kingdom. These great truths and these universe facts are all related to this gospel in that they are a part of the result of believing the good news and are embraced in the subsequent experience of those who, by faith, become, in deed and in truth, the everlasting sons of the eternal God. My Father sent me into the world to proclaim this salvation of sonship to all men. And so send I you abroad to preach this salvation of sonship. Salvation is the free gift of God, but those who are born of the spirit will immediately begin to show forth the fruits of the spirit in loving service to their fellow creatures. And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. If professed believers bear not these fruits of the divine spirit in their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not in them; they are useless branches on the living vine, and they soon will be taken away. My Father requires of the children of faith that they bear much spirit fruit. If, therefore, you are not fruitful, he will dig about your roots and cut away your unfruitful branches. Increasingly, must you yield the fruits of the spirit as you progress heavenward in the kingdom of God. You may enter the kingdom as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature of spiritual adulthood. And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news of this gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your hearts. My peace I leave with you.”
193:2.3 (2054.4)
And then the Master disappeared from their sight. The next day there went out from Tyre those who carried this story to Sidon and even to Antioch and Damascus. Jesus had been with these believers when he was in the flesh, and they were quick to recognize him when he began to teach them. While his friends could not readily recognize his morontia form when made visible, they were never slow to identify his personality when he spoke to them.
“평강이 너희에게 있으라. 내가 아버지께로 올라갈 때까지, 그리고 모든 육체에 곧 부어지고, 저 높은 곳에서 권능과 함께 너희에게 수여될, 진리의 영을 내가 너희에게 보낼 때까지도, 여기 예루살렘에 머물러 있으라고 당부했었다.” 열심당 시몬이 예수의 말씀을 가로막으면서 물었다;“그렇다면 주님, 당신께서 천국을 다시 세우실 것입니까? 그리고 하나님의 영광이 이 세상에 나타나는 것을 우리가 보게 됩니까?” 시몬의 질문을 다 들은 예수께서 말씀했다:“시몬아, 너는 아직도 유대인의 메시야와 물질적 왕국에 대한 옛 개념에 몰두하는구나. 그러나 그 영이 너에게 임한 후에는 네가 영적 능력을 받을 것이고, 너는 곧 온 세상으로 나가서 이 천국 복음을 전파할 것이다. 아버지께서 나를 세상에 보내신 것처럼, 나도 너희를 보낸다. 그리고 너희가 서로 사랑하고 신뢰하게 되기를 소망한다. 유다는 사랑이 식었으므로, 그리고 충실한 형제인 너희를 신뢰하지 않았으므로, 너희와 더 이상 함께 있지 않다. 너희는, ‘혼자 있는 것이 사람에게 좋지 않다. 아무도 혼자 살 수 없다’고 성서에 씌어있는 것을 읽지 못했느냐? 또한, ‘친구가 되려는 사람은 자신을 친구처럼 보여야한다’고 기록된 것을 읽지 못했느냐? 내가 너희를 보내서 가르치게 했을 때에도, 너희가 외롭게 되어 고독함이 주는 해악과 고통에 빠지지 않도록 둘씩 짝지어 보내지 않았느냐? 또한 너희도 잘 알다시피, 내가 육신 속에 있을 때, 나 혼자 오랜 기간 떨어져있지 않으려고 조심했다. 우리가 교제하던 아주 초기부터, 나는 너희 가운데 두 세 사람이 항상 내 옆에 있도록 했고, 내가 아버지와 교류할 때에도 아주 가까운 곳에 있게 했다. 그러므로 서로 신뢰하고 깊이 신임해라. 오늘날 내가 너희를 홀로 이 세상에 남겨두게 됐으니, 이것이 더욱 필요하다. 그때가 왔고;나는 곧 아버지께로 갈 것이다.”
193:3.2 (2055.2)
“Peace be upon you. I have asked you to tarry here in Jerusalem until I ascend to the Father, even until I send you the Spirit of Truth, who shall soon be poured out upon all flesh, and who shall endow you with power from on high.” Simon Zelotes interrupted Jesus, asking, “Then, Master, will you restore the kingdom, and will we see the glory of God manifested on earth?” When Jesus had listened to Simon’s question, he answered: “Simon, you still cling to your old ideas about the Jewish Messiah and the material kingdom. But you will receive spiritual power after the spirit has descended upon you, and you will presently go into all the world preaching this gospel of the kingdom. As the Father sent me into the world, so do I send you. And I wish that you would love and trust one another. Judas is no more with you because his love grew cold, and because he refused to trust you, his loyal brethren. Have you not read in the Scripture where it is written: ‘It is not good for man to be alone. No man lives to himself’? And also where it says: ‘He who would have friends must show himself friendly’? And did I not even send you out to teach, two and two, that you might not become lonely and fall into the mischief and miseries of isolation? You also well know that, when I was in the flesh, I did not permit myself to be alone for long periods. From the very beginning of our associations I always had two or three of you constantly by my side or else very near at hand even when I communed with the Father. Trust, therefore, and confide in one another. And this is all the more needful since I am this day going to leave you alone in the world. The hour has come; I am about to go to the Father.”
193:3.3 (2055.3)
When he had spoken, he beckoned for them to come with him, and he led them out on the Mount of Olives, where he bade them farewell preparatory to departing from Urantia. This was a solemn journey to Olivet. Not a word was spoken by any of them from the time they left the upper chamber until Jesus paused with them on the Mount of Olives.
193:4.1 (2055.4)
It was in the first part of the Master’s farewell message to his apostles that he alluded to the loss of Judas and held up the tragic fate of their traitorous fellow worker as a solemn warning against the dangers of social and fraternal isolation. It may be helpful to believers, in this and in future ages, briefly to review the causes of Judas’s downfall in the light of the Master’s remarks and in view of the accumulated enlightenment of succeeding centuries.
우리가 이 비극적인 사건을 돌이켜보건대, 주로 유다가 아주 두드러지게 고립되는 인성, 즉 평범한 사회적 접촉을 멀리하고 폐쇄적인 인성이었기 때문에 잘못에 빠졌다고 생각한다. 그는 동료 사도들을 깊이 신임하는 것과, 자유롭게 그들과 우정을 나누는 것을 완고하게 거부했다. 그러나 사랑을 강화하고 영적 은혜의 성장에서 실패하지 않았다면, 고립된 인성 유형에 속했더라도, 그 자체로는, 유다에게 그런 악영향을 끼치지 않았을 것이다. 게다가 설상가상으로, 그는 고집스럽게 나쁜 생각을 품었고, 원한이라는 심리적인 적, 그리고 자신의 모든 실망감에 대해 누군가에게 “받은대로 갚기”를 막연히 갈망하는 심리적인 적을 마음에 품고 있었다.
193:4.2 (2055.5)
As we look back upon this tragedy, we conceive that Judas went wrong, primarily, because he was very markedly an isolated personality, a personality shut in and away from ordinary social contacts. He persistently refused to confide in, or freely fraternize with, his fellow apostles. But his being an isolated type of personality would not, in and of itself, have wrought such mischief for Judas had it not been that he also failed to increase in love and grow in spiritual grace. And then, as if to make a bad matter worse, he persistently harbored grudges and fostered such psychologic enemies as revenge and the generalized craving to “get even” with somebody for all his disappointments.
불운하게도 이렇게 조합된 개인 습성과 정신적 경향이, 사랑과 신앙과 신용으로 이런 악을 정복하지 못하고 실패한 사람, 즉 선의로-행한 한 사람을 죽이는 결과를 가져왔다. 유다가 반드시 잘못되지 않을 수도 있었던 것은, 도마와 나다니엘의 경우가 잘 증명하며, 이 두 사람도 이와 동일한 종류의 의심과 과도한 개인주의 경향으로 비뚤어진 상태였다. 심지어 안드레와 마태에게도 이런 추세의 성향이 많이 있었지만;이 사람들은 모두 시간이 지나면서 예수와 동료 사도들을 점점 더 사랑하게 됐고, 줄어든 적이 없었다. 그들은 은혜에서, 그리고 진리에 대한 지식에서 더 깊어졌다. 그들은 형제들에 대한 신용이 점점 깊어졌고, 동료들을 깊이 신임할 수 있는 역량을 서서히 계발{啓發}했다. 유다는 형제들을 깊이 신임하기를 고집스럽게 거절했다. 그는 자신의 감정적 갈등이 쌓여서, 자아를 표현할 분출구를 찾을 수밖에 없을 때마다, 영적이지 못한 친척, 또는 우연히 알게 된 자들에게 조언을 구하고 어리석은 위로를 받았는데, 그들은 영적인 하늘나라 실체의 복지와 진보에 무관심하거나 실제로 반대하는 자들이었으며, 그 면에서는 유다가 이 땅에서 성별{聖別}된 하늘 나라의 열두 대사 가운데 하나였다.
193:4.3 (2056.1)
This unfortunate combination of individual peculiarities and mental tendencies conspired to destroy a well-intentioned man who failed to subdue these evils by love, faith, and trust. That Judas need not have gone wrong is well proved by the cases of Thomas and Nathaniel, both of whom were cursed with this same sort of suspicion and overdevelopment of the individualistic tendency. Even Andrew and Matthew had many leanings in this direction; but all these men grew to love Jesus and their fellow apostles more, and not less, as time passed. They grew in grace and in a knowledge of the truth. They became increasingly more trustful of their brethren and slowly developed the ability to confide in their fellows. Judas persistently refused to confide in his brethren. When he was impelled, by the accumulation of his emotional conflicts, to seek relief in self-expression, he invariably sought the advice and received the unwise consolation of his unspiritual relatives or those chance acquaintances who were either indifferent, or actually hostile, to the welfare and progress of the spiritual realities of the heavenly kingdom, of which he was one of the twelve consecrated ambassadors on earth.
193:4.7 (2056.5)
3. He never acquired a philosophic technique for meeting disappointment. Instead of accepting disappointments as a regular and commonplace feature of human existence, he unfailingly resorted to the practice of blaming someone in particular, or his associates as a group, for all his personal difficulties and disappointments.
193:4.13 (2057.1)
While this self-centered and ultraindividualistic apostle had many psychic, emotional, and spiritual troubles, his main difficulties were: In personality, he was isolated. In mind, he was suspicious and vengeful. In temperament, he was surly and vindictive. Emotionally, he was loveless and unforgiving. Socially, he was unconfiding and almost wholly self-contained. In spirit, he became arrogant and selfishly ambitious. In life, he ignored those who loved him, and in death, he was friendless.
193:4.14 (2057.2)
These, then, are the factors of mind and influences of evil which, taken altogether, explain why a well-meaning and otherwise onetime sincere believer in Jesus, even after several years of intimate association with his transforming personality, forsook his fellows, repudiated a sacred cause, renounced his holy calling, and betrayed his divine Master.
193:5.1 (2057.3)
It was almost half past seven o’clock this Thursday morning, May 18, when Jesus arrived on the western slope of Mount Olivet with his eleven silent and somewhat bewildered apostles. From this location, about two thirds the way up the mountain, they could look out over Jerusalem and down upon Gethsemane. Jesus now prepared to say his last farewell to the apostles before he took leave of Urantia. As he stood there before them, without being directed they knelt about him in a circle, and the Master said:
“저 높은 곳으로부터 권능을 부여받기까지 예루살렘에 머물라고 너희에게 지시했다. 이제 나는 너희를 떠나려하며;아버지께로 올라갈 것이고, 곧, 아주 가까운 시일 내에, 내가 머물렀던 이 세상으로 진리의 영을 보낼 것이며;그가 오면, 너희는 먼저 예루살렘에서, 그다음에는 세상 구석구석까지, 천국 복음을 비로소 새롭게 선포할 것이다. 내가 너희를 사랑한 그 사랑으로 사람들을 사랑하고, 내가 너희를 섬긴 것처럼 동료 필사자를 섬겨라. 너희 삶에 맺히는 영 열매들로 말미암아, 사람이 하나님의 아들이고 모든 사람은 서로 형제라는 그 진리를 사람들이 믿게 될 것이다. 내가 너희에게 가르친 모든 것과 너희 가운데서 내가 살았던 생애를 기억해라. 내 사랑이 너희를 지배하고, 내 영이 너희 안에 거할 것이고, 내 평강이 너희에게 임할 것이다. 잘 있거라.”
193:5.2 (2057.4)
“I bade you tarry in Jerusalem until you were endowed with power from on high. I am now about to take leave of you; I am about to ascend to my Father, and soon, very soon, will we send into this world of my sojourn the Spirit of Truth; and when he has come, you shall begin the new proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom, first in Jerusalem and then to the uttermost parts of the world. Love men with the love wherewith I have loved you and serve your fellow mortals even as I have served you. By the spirit fruits of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and that all men are brethren. Remember all I have taught you and the life I have lived among you. My love overshadows you, my spirit will dwell with you, and my peace shall abide upon you. Farewell.”
193:5.4 (2057.6)
The Master went to Edentia by way of Jerusem, where the Most Highs, under the observation of the Paradise Son, released Jesus of Nazareth from the morontia state and, through the spirit channels of ascension, returned him to the status of Paradise sonship and supreme sovereignty on Salvington.
베드로의 지시에 따라서, 요한 마가 및 다른 사람들은, 마리아 마가의 집에 모이도록 수제자들을 부르러 나갔다. 열 시 반이 됐을 때, 120명에 달하는, 예루살렘에 사는 예수의 수제자들이, 주님의 작별 설교에 대한 보고를 듣고 그의 승천 소식을 들으려고 모였다. 이 무리 중에는 예수의 어머니 마리아도 있었다. 사도들이 최근에 갈릴리에 머물다가 예루살렘으로 돌아왔을 때, 어머니도 요한 세베대와 함께 왔다. 어머니는 벳새다에 있는 살로메의 집으로 오순절 직후에 돌아갔다. 예수의 형제 야고보 역시, 이 모임, 즉 주님이 이 행성에서 생애를 마친 후 소집된 제자들의 첫 회담에 참석했다.
193:6.1 (2057.8)
Acting upon the instruction of Peter, John Mark and others went forth to call the leading disciples together at the home of Mary Mark. By ten thirty, one hundred and twenty of the foremost disciples of Jesus living in Jerusalem had forgathered to hear the report of the farewell message of the Master and to learn of his ascension. Among this company was Mary the mother of Jesus. She had returned to Jerusalem with John Zebedee when the apostles came back from their recent sojourn in Galilee. Soon after Pentecost she returned to the home of Salome at Bethsaida. James the brother of Jesus was also present at this meeting, the first conference of the Master’s disciples to be called after the termination of his planetary career.
193:6.2 (2058.1)
Simon Peter took it upon himself to speak for his fellow apostles and made a thrilling report of the last meeting of the eleven with their Master and most touchingly portrayed the Master’s final farewell and his ascension disappearance. It was a meeting the like of which had never before occurred on this world. This part of the meeting lasted not quite one hour. Peter then explained that they had decided to choose a successor to Judas Iscariot, and that a recess would be granted to enable the apostles to decide between the two men who had been suggested for this position, Matthias and Justus.
193:6.3 (2058.2)
The eleven apostles then went downstairs, where they agreed to cast lots in order to determine which of these men should become an apostle to serve in Judas’s place. The lot fell on Matthias, and he was declared to be the new apostle. He was duly inducted into his office and then appointed treasurer. But Matthias had little part in the subsequent activities of the apostles.
193:6.4 (2058.3)
Soon after Pentecost the twins returned to their homes in Galilee. Simon Zelotes was in retirement for some time before he went forth preaching the gospel. Thomas worried for a shorter period and then resumed his teaching. Nathaniel differed increasingly with Peter regarding preaching about Jesus in the place of proclaiming the former gospel of the kingdom. This disagreement became so acute by the middle of the following month that Nathaniel withdrew, going to Philadelphia to visit Abner and Lazarus; and after tarrying there for more than a year, he went on into the lands beyond Mesopotamia preaching the gospel as he understood it.
193:6.6 (2058.5)
Just about noon the apostles returned to their brethren in the upper chamber and announced that Matthias had been chosen as the new apostle. And then Peter called all of the believers to engage in prayer, prayer that they might be prepared to receive the gift of the spirit which the Master had promised to send.